Police Blotter

Assault on SW Alaska Sage advice from childhood on how to deal with a bully always went “just walk away”. There are times in life when this maxim just doesn’t help.

The victim of an assault on s.w. Alaskan St. early in the morning on Nov…MORE

By Shara WallaceMan breaks through airport securityA man sits in King County jail after he allegedly bolted through a security checkpoint at Sea-Tac Airport and onto an empty plane. The suspect did not have a plane ticket when he ran through the…MORE

Burglar makes off with some nice hedgers

Nov. 12, 8:10 a.m., 3600 Block of Phinney Ave N -- A burglar forced open the front door of an apartment, pried open a ground floor storage room and removed two Echo gas hedgers. There are no known…MORE

By Shara Wallace

Racial DiscriminationNine minority staff members filed a racial discrimination claim with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Ethelda Burke. Burke who was the Tukwila superintendent and is African…MORE

Car sale turns robbery Anyone who has gone through the process of selling a vehicle privately has probably had those moments of worry about meeting and exchanging large amounts of cash for significant goods with a total stranger. In an incident…MORE

A Halloween scuffle

Nov. 1, 1:41 a.m., 4300 Block of Phinney Ave N -- A man and his girlfriend went to a Halloween party on Phinney Ridge went things turned sour. It's unknown why, but a fight broke out between the man and three males who…MORE

Cameras don’t lie The owner of a restaurant on the 4700 block of California Ave. S.W. was dealing with a longstanding pattern of money disappearing from his crew’s collective tip jar and purses, so he decided to set up a surveillance camera to…MORE

Oct. 26, 9:20 p.m., 7700 Block of 16th Ave NW -- A woman had approximately $50,000-worth of jewelry stolen from her home. The metal, back door of the kitchen was forced in and her bedroom was rifled through. No other rooms were touched. The…MORE

One dangerous home It was early afternoon on Oct. 17 when a man living on 12th Ave. S.W. saw two people snooping around a neighbor’s dilapidated home that had been vacant for a year after the owner passed away. Knowing the deceased owner’s…MORE

By Shara WallaceI-5 crash near SouthcenterState troopers responded to a report of a motorcycle crash in Tukwila. They arrived to find the motorcyclist, later identified as Rory D. Hinton, 55, dead and his passenger a 54-year old woman injured.…MORE